Who Is Unhappy in America?

While Americans of all ages have become less happy since the 2010s (and especially since 2020), young Americans — those 35 and under — have long reported lower happiness than their elders and the gap has widened since 2010. At the same time, young people’s perception of their relative financial position has deteriorated over the entire post-war period, reversing a pattern from the 1970s in which…